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Jonathan signs Profs’ retirement age into law
President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday assented to the Bill for an Act to further amend the Universities (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act No. 11, 1993.
According to a statement by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati, the new Universities (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Amendment) Act, 2012, limits the tenure of principal officers of universities to a single term of five years.
The law also increased the compulsory retirement age of staff in the professorial cadre and non-academic staff in Nigerian universities to 70 and 65 years respectively.
Also on Monday, the President signed the Bill for an Act entitled, Retirement Age of Staff of Polytechnics and Colleges of Education (Harmonisation) Act, 2012.
The law harmonises the compulsory retirement age of staff of Polytechnics and Colleges of Education to 65 years.
They are also exempted from the public service rule which requires a person to retire from the public service after serving for 35 years.
This is a welcom development. It will be good if the NUC can enlighten Nigerians via this medium on restructuring of our schools, updating of their curricular ‘n facilities ‘n any development between ASUU ‘n the FG. Research programs should be encouraged. Thank u.
Signing the retirement age of school principals into law is a good thing. But the positioning of the schools to its former glory is better worked at as no nation can be great without the education of its citizens.